

"My earliest memory of dance, probably - what gave me the bug to actually become a performer - was when I was four years old," she said. Retrieved October 24, 2019.Paula Julie Abdul was born and raised just a few miles from Hollywood, and caught a bad case of dance fever early on. Recording Industry Association of America. ^ "American single certifications – Paula Abdul – Rush Rush".^ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish).^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart".1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade – The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. "1991 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles".
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With Keanu Reeves filling James Dean's role of Jim, opposite Abdul as Judy, several scenes from the movie are duplicated shot-for-shot. The video reimagines the 1955 James Dean/ Natalie Wood film Rebel Without a Cause, including iconic location shots at Griffith Observatory, a black 1949 Mercury, and a climactic street race. Lyrically, "Rush Rush" is about the desire for a lover who will give their all in a relationship. In fall of 1990 at Studio Masters, Abdul laid down a scratch vocal for the track, which was never intended to make it to the song's final mix, but the producers felt that its unpolished sound was needed to give the song its ingenuous tone, to match its subject matter and accompanying promotional video clip it ended up on the final cut in March 1991. "Rush Rush" was a departure for Abdul stylistically, as it was her first ballad released as a single, following the six uptempo singles from her debut LP it was viewed as a rather risky strategy in kicking off her second album of new material Spellbound, but the decision was vindicated, as it was warmly received at retail.įirst presented to Abdul as a demo by the Family Stand in 1990, she became intent on it becoming the first single.
